02x08 - Movin' on Down

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♪ Well, we're movin' on up ♪

♪ Movin' on up ♪

♪ To the East
Side Movin' on up ♪

♪ To a deluxe apartment ♪

♪ In the sky ♪

♪ Movin' on up ♪

♪ To the East
Side Movin' on up ♪

♪ We finally got a
piece Of the pie ♪

♪ Fish don't fry
In the kitchen ♪

♪ Beans don't
burn On the grill ♪

♪ Took a whole lot of tryin' ♪

♪ Just to get up that hill ♪

♪ Now we're up
In the big leagues ♪

♪ Gettin' our turn at bat ♪

♪ As long as we live
It's you and me, baby ♪

♪ There ain't Nothin'
wrong with that ♪

♪ We're movin' on
up Movin' on up ♪

♪ To the East
Side Movin' on up ♪

♪ To a deluxe
apartment In the sky ♪

♪ Movin' on up Movin' on up ♪

♪ To the East
Side Movin' on up ♪

♪ We finally got a
piece Of the pie ♪♪

Florence, would you
come here a minute?

What is it Miss Jefferson?

How do these tables look?

Mm, not bad. Did you do
the dining room table too?

Uh-huh.

Good, now you
can put these away.

Thank you Florence,
it's such a pleasure

having you work for me.

Thank you. And I could use
some help in the kitchen too.

Huh?

Unless you don't want
no soup with your dinner.

Because I got my hands
full fixing the poached salmon.

Poached salmon?
My husband hates fish.

Well he can use all he can
get, honey. Fish is brain food.

Don't you let Mr. Jefferson
hear you make a joke like that.

Who's joking?

Florence, around here
fish is a four-letter word.

And if you don't want
to hear more of them,

you better serve something else.

Chicken.

That's a good idea.

I was talking about you.

Oh, hello, George.

How would you like
to eat out tonight?

Anything you like, Weezy.

What am I supposed to do
with the poached salmon?

Don't tell her George.

You're making poached
salmon, Florence?

Yeah, any objections?

No, fish would be very nice.

Yup, that's him all right.

George, are you
feeling all right?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Any calls?

Just Helen Willis. She and
Tom have a big surprise for us.

That's nice.

I asked them to stop by,
you don't mind, do you?

No.

No?

Didn't I get a call
from Mr. Johnson?

No, who's Mr. Johnson?

He's the vice
president of the bank,

I've been dealing
with him for years.

I got to get a loan out
of him for the new store.

Hey, I'm glad you're home, Pop.

Could you give me 20 bucks?

Where you get this
"give me" stuff from?

Don't you say please anymore?

Hey, I'm sorry. Could I
have 20 bucks, please?

No.

What? Sh.

Mr. Johnson, please.
George Jefferson speaking.

But Pop... Look, it's about time

you learned the value of money.

It's just 20 bucks.

Ain't no "just" in
front of 20 bucks.

But it's not for me.

Oh, then who's it for?

It's for the guy I owe it to.

That's even worse, I don't
give money to strangers.

Oh, Pop, come on.

Look, the answer is no, no, no!

Okay, okay, okay.

Hey, what's bothering Pop?

You are.

He's got something on his
mind. Talk to him tomorrow.

Hey, um, you wouldn't
happen to have...

No.

It didn't pay to get up today.

He's still out to lunch?

It's after 4:00. How
slow can he chew?

I'm sorry, lady, I didn't
mean to make you mad.

But he was out to
lunch all day yesterday.

I know he's busy man.

I know you're doing the best
you can. I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Bye.

George, is there
something wrong?

Nothing. Just business.

Man, I'm b*at.

Mr. Jefferson, I want to
talk to you about my raise.

What raise?

The raise I was
supposed to get last week.

Did you get it? No.

Good.

Mr. Jefferson, I work
hard around here.

I even do the
windows twice a week.

Do them once a week.

Uh-uh, I ain't
working in no place

with no dirty windows.

Florence, I can't pay you
now, so if you want to quit...

Don't you thr*aten
me, Mr. Jefferson!

I'm going to stay here
as long as I feel like it.

Okay, George.
Something is bothering you

and I want to know what it is.

What you talking about?

All of a sudden you're
willing to eat fish,

and then you get on
the phone eat crow.

Lighten up, will you?

And then you won't let
your own son have $20.

What happened to the
last of the big spenders?

He's all spent, Weezy.

George, is something
wrong with the business?

There sure is. I'm losing money.

What?

That's right, I only
made 10% profit this year.

10% profit? But that
means you're making money.

No. Last year I made 20% profit.

10% is half of 20. I've
lost half my business.

Oh, come on, George.

Look you don't understand
how it is, Weezy.

Look, when your profits
stop making profits,

that means you got no
business being in business.

And pretty soon, that's
exactly what you got:

no business.

[DOORBELL RINGING]

Actually, George, you
haven't lost anything.

Oh, no? I just dropped
$10,000 down the drain.

$10,000?

Get the door.

Hello, Louise!

Louise?

What?

Oh, hi. Come in.

Louise.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Is there anything wrong, Louise?

Uh, yes. George said...

What could be wrong? Sit down.

Why don't we see
more of you two?

There is something wrong.

Ah, what's the big
surprise you got for us?

Why don't we pour
the champagne first.

Good idea.

Florence, bring some
champagne glasses.

Oh, are we celebrating my raise?

No.

Then get your own glasses.

There's some on the bar.

Go ahead, Tom. Tell him.

Well, this isn't
the kind of thing

you can tell just anybody.

But we had to tell someone.

Uh-huh, and we
lucked out, right?

Right.

Yeah, I've been lucking
out like this all day.

Don't tell me you came
into a lot of money.

That's it! I sure did.

I told you not to tell me that.

Tom just got a big fat raise.

You hear that, Mr. Jefferson?
Everybody's getting raises.

Except you.

You're now looking at
the newest vice president

of Pellum Publishing

As you would say,
George, I'm "movin' on up."

How much is the raise?

$10,000.

Tom, you're not supposed
to talk about things like that.

Helen, it's all right
when you're telling it

to someone who's already
got it, like George here.

Otherwise it would be bragging.

Well, congratulations, Tom.
Isn't that wonderful, George?

It ain't so much.

$10,000 is a lot to us.

It's a lot to George too.

Well, here's to success.
May we all continue to enjoy it.

To success. To success.

Why, you're not
drinking, George.

I just remembered,
champagne ain't my drink.

I don't like the bubbles.

You mean they tickle you nose?

No, they give me gas.

I'm sorry, but George
isn't himself today.

I knew there was
something I liked about him.

Come on, George, it's a toast.

You got to have something.

Okay. I'll just have a
couple aspirin on the rocks.

He seems kind of upset.
Maybe we'd better go.

Would you mind? I would
like to talk George alone.

Not at all. Come on, Tom.

Congratulations again.

Thanks, dear.

Tom, don't take the champagne.

Well, George doesn't like it.

But Louise does.

Yes, if you're going to
be alone with George,

you'll need this
more than we do.

Bye. Bye.

Are you all right?

I'm feeling better now.

The aspirin is in, and
the Willises are out.

George, $10,000?

That's right Weezy,
I was outsmarted.

Me. Played for a sucker.

I thought I was getting a lot
of cleaning equipment cheap,

and I wind up getting
$10,000 worth of junk.

Oh, well, I'm sorry, but that
could happen to anybody.

But it ain't supposed
to be happening to me.

I ain't got it, Weezy. I
just ain't got it no more.

George, what are you saying?

I'm finished. And
the word is out.

Why else would Johnson
stop answering my phone calls?

Well, I'm sure there's some
simple explanation for that.

Sure there is. He don't
want to back no loser.

George, you are not a loser.

You're not listening
to me, woman.

You got a drowning man
standing in front of you.

Now don't argue with me.
I what I'm talking about.

Things are bad.

Okay, George, you're right.

Things are bad and
they're going to get worse.

That's better.

Listen, George...

Look, I'm trying to explain
to you how things really are.

I don't know, Weezy. I don't
know what I'm going to do.

George, remember, no
matter what, I love you.

Well you don't have to
say "I love you" like that!

Like what?

Like I'm going to die.

George, I can't believe
this is you talking.

You've had one setback.

Forget about it. Look ahead.

Think about the new
store you're going to open.

Hmph. Might not be no new store.

What?

In fact, there might
not be no new nothing.

Weez, you got to face
it. We're movin' on down.

No.

No!

Let me out. Let me out!

Wake up, George!

I'm sorry I woke you,

but you were having
a terrible nightmare.

Thanks, Weezy. You got
me out of that one just in time.

I brought you some warm milk.

Warm milk will help you sleep.

No, I don't want to
go to sleep no more.

I don't want to go
back there again.

Go back where? What
were you dreaming about?

Oh, yeah, right. I was
down in my cleaning store.

Wasn't no customers there
and I couldn't figure out why.

So I looked out the window,

and the whole world was
wearing wash-and-wear.

Poor George.

Then all of a sudden
a customer came in.

Oh, good.

No, bad, Weezy.

Because he had
this spot on his suit

that wouldn't come out.

So I started rubbing,
rubbing hard as I could.

Harder and harder.

Then all of a sudden the
spot turned into a hole.

So I stopped,

but the hole kept getting
bigger and bigger and bigger.

Then on the other
side of the hole,

I saw this ladder
made out of gold,

a golden ladder.

So I climbed through the
hole, and got onto the ladder,

and I started climb and
climb, but the more I climbed,

the further down I went. I
kept slipping down the ladder.

Why?

Because the ladder
was covered with wax.

Was it Johnson's wax?

What difference does that make?

Don't you see, you've
been trying to get a hold

of Johnson the banker.

And he's been
acting very slippery.

Get it?

So the wax in your
dream was really Johnson.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, now that
that's all cleared up,

don't you feel better now?

No.

Because that was the
good part of the dream.

I kept slipping
down that ladder.

All of a sudden, I
was in the subway.

Did you have a token or did
you sneak in under the turnstile?

I fell in through the roof right

into middle of the A train.

It was full of zebras.

I mean, there was
zebras everywhere,

snorting and
stomping, and chewing

and messing up the place.
Weezy, ain't nothing uglier

than an A train full of zebras.

I'm not going to explain
that one to you, George.

Then at the first
stop I got off,

and I ran onto the up escalator,

only it was going down.
Somebody switched signs on me.

Because right next to
me was the down escalator

with a bottle of champagne
with a white label on it

and the bottle was
going up, up, up.

And I was going
down, down, down.

And at the bottom, you ain't
going to believe this Weezy...

At the bottom was
all these cockroaches

yelling and waving,
"Welcome back, George."

And that's when you
woke me up, thank God.

Easy, George, it
was only a dream.

I don't want to go
back to the ghetto.

Then do something about it.

What can I do?

Get to Johnson.

I've been trying for two weeks,

he won't even talk to me.

George, have you ever heard

of a banker who
was afraid to say no?

No.

Has Johnson said no?

How could he say no, he
won't even pick up the phone.

So he's been busy
or sick or something.

At least it's worth another try.

Ain't no use.

Remember the waving
cockroaches, George.

Yeah, you're right.
Okay, I'll call Johnson

first thing in the morning.

You feel better now?

Uh-huh.

And you're going to
stop worrying yourself

sick about this thing? Right.

Good. Now let's get some sleep.

Good night, George.

Night, Weezy.

Weezy?

Yes, George?

You know, I was just wondering.

Yes, George?

You know, I was just wondering.

How much you think we can
get for our living room furniture?

All right, I'll call him.

That's right, I'd like to
speak to Mr. Johnson please.

Yes, I called before.
And I called before that.

And I called before that.

Jefferson. George Jefferson.

J as in jerk, E as
in me, F as in...

Yes, I'll hold.

[DOORBELL RINGING]

Go away.

No, not you, Miss. Look,
would you just put me through

to Mr. Johnson, please.

He knows who I am.

Yes, I'll hold on.

Go away, nobody in!

Did you say come in?

What? He's not
in his office again?

How come before he
was always in his office,

now he ain't
never in his office.

Yeah, you damn right I want
to leave a message for him.

Yeah, you tell him that I...

Oh, what's the use?

Mr. J, I just had to
come by and offer you

my heartiest congratulations.

What kind of a
dirty cr*ck is that?

What?

Where you coming from, Bentley?

Why, from England. I
thought you knew that?

Prettiest little spot on
the Sussex Downs. Just...

Bentley, I'm tired. Do you mind?

Well, I'm not surprised,
it must be jolly hard work

keeping your
standards up to snuff.

Snuff? What's snuff got to
do with it, I don't even smoke.

It's just an expression.

And rather a strange one.

Because snuff is
something you sniff.

But if you're up to snuff,

then it means you're
not to be sniffed at.

You know, I never
thought of that before.

I wish you hadn't
thought of it now.

Well, anyway, to
repeat, congratulations.

Your store did a marvelous
job on these trousers.

Best piece of invisible
weaving I've ever seen.

Or should I say the
best invisible weaving

I've never seen?

The point is, I thought
these tweeds were a total loss

when the ambassador
dropped his cigar on them,

not to mention the pain.

But you see,
they're good as new.

Yeah, my stores
always did a good job.

Of course it was a Havana cigar.

I imagine they
make the best holes.

What do you mean your
stores always "did" a good job?

Oh, did I say
"did"? I meant "do."

Well, you certainly deserve
all the success you have, Mr. J.

You haven't been talking
to Louise, have you?

Oh, no. I'd never talk to
Mrs. J about my trousers.

Well, I must run, just
keep up the good work,

and don't worry about
your new competitors.

Competitor? What competitor?

The new cleaning store that
just opened around the corner.

Haven't you seen it?

New cleaning store?
Around this corner?

Yes, packed with customers
when I went by it today.

Packed?

Jam-packed.

But I don't think you've
got anything to worry about.

I'm sure it's only
because their prices

are much lower than yours.

Toodle-loo.

Pop, about that 20 bucks.

What 20 bucks?

The 20 bucks you wouldn't
give me yesterday, remember?

Oh, that's 20 bucks. Yeah,
that's the same 20 bucks

I ain't giving you today.

Well, how about a
little advice instead?

If it's free, you got it.

It's about the guy I
owe the money to.

He's got the whammy on me, Pop.

Say what?

This dude at school, Phil Green.

I can't b*at him at anything.

That's life son, some
folks are winners,

and some folks are losers.

There must be something
I can b*at him at.

It's driving me crazy.

I mean, we bet on
football, Phil wins.

We pitch pennies, Phil wins.

Last week, we argued about
how old this girl was in our class,

and I thought I was
on the sure thing

because she'd told
me how old she was.

Mm-hm, but she lied to you.

Yeah. How'd you know that?

They all do.

See? You know
things like that, Pop.

This Phil, I bet you he
always lays the bets out, right?

Yeah. I guess so.

Mm-hm, you always
playing his game?

I guess.

Stop being a turkey!

The George Jefferson
rule is always get the dude

to play in your ballpark.

But I don't know
where my ballpark is.

I mean the other day,
Phil wanted to bet me

my own name wasn't
Lionel Jefferson.

How much did you take him for?

Nothing. I mean, he
had me so psyched out,

I was so afraid to take the bet.

Mm-hm.

See, you need one good win

to get back your
confidence, that's all.

Get it back? It's
been gone so long,

it don't even write
home anymore.

Come here.

Put $1.00 on the table.

It's no good teaching
me a card game, Pop.

Phil already b*at me at poker,

blackjack, gin, you
name it, he wins it.

Look will you just shut up.

And put George Washington's
face on the table, please?

Now... Here's my dollar, okay?

Got a pair of aces, pair
of kings, pair of queens.

Right? Right.

Okay, I'll let you
go first. Pick a pair.

I can pick any pair I want?

Any pair on the table.

Okay, I'll say aces are
high and take these.

See, that's very smart,
but I'll take this pair.

You can't do that.

Why not? I said
any pair on the table.

Hey! Now I've got him.

I got him. I'll k*ll him.

Now tell me how would
it'd work with a $10 bill?

10 times as good.
Man, you're the greatest.

I mean, I could go
to school 100 years

and never have the
kind of smarts you have.

Just a natural born winner.

How you think I got
where I am today?

Hey, thank you, Dad.

I'm sure lucky to have
an old man like you.

I know.

Now get out of here. I
got a phone call to make.

Hey, wait a minute.
What about my dollar?

See, that's something
else you learned.

I didn't get where I am
today by giving back a buck.

Oh, hi, Florence.

Hi, is your father home? Yeah.

Mr. Jefferson, I came

to talk to you about my raise.

You got it. Now that
ain't good enough.

What did you say?

I said you got it. Now get.

Yes, sir.

Well, he's back to normal.

What? He's nutty as a fruitcake.

Is this Cassidy construction?

Let me speak to
your boss please.

George, I've got
something to tell you.

Sh, wait a minute.
Cassidy? Look.

I want you to get your men

working on that
new store right away.

And I want it fully
equipped and ready to open

by the end of the month.

Sure I can get the money.
Haven't I always got the money?

George Jefferson
always finds a way.

Now get on it.

Well, good-bye,
p*ssy cat. Hello, tiger.

Yeah.

Now what did you
want to tell me?

Oh, I found out your Mr. Johnson

hasn't been in
town for two weeks.

The bank's been
covering for him.

How you know that?

It's right here.

"Banker absconds
to South America

with half a million dollars."

Well, what do you know?

See, Weezy? You worry too much.

I worry too much?

Hey, Weez, got a $1.00?

Yeah.

Put it on the table.

All right.

All right. Pick a pair.

Any pair?

Any pair on the table.

Thank you, George.

ANNOUNCER: The
Jeffersons was recorded on tape

in front of a studio audience.